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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What d you do if a book that catches your fancy at the start ends up dragging in the middle? Me, I stick it out. I remember a book like this very well. I read Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard on the recommendation of a friend. I got about 1/2 way through it and it really started to bog down. And then like 3/4 into it, it could have ended at a numbe rof places. It's like he ended it and then decided to tack more on to it in a number of places. Overall a dreadful book that started off with some promise.
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Battlefield Earth bemused a number of folks. We couldn't decide if it was a manuscript Hubbard had lying in a drawer since before he created Dianetics which morphed into Scienetology, or whether it was a new book, but he hadn't learned anything new about writing in the 30 years since he'd last taken up the pen.
Hubbard was a competant hack who could write to order for the pulps, and did some nice Arabian Nights style fantasies for John W. Campbell in Unknown Worlds. If you expect anything more than that, you'll be disappointed.
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Dennis